Buttons Challenge Introduction & Explanation - Pitfall: The Lost Expedition
10Welcome to the Pitfall: The Lost Expedition's Button Challenge series. This project was heavily inspired by the Super Mario 64 ABC challenges, Donkey Kong 64 A Button challenge and Banjo-Kazooie A Button challenge. In case you are not aware of what these are, this challenge is about finding the bare minimum amount of presses of a certain button needed to beat the game.
In the case of Pitfall, I need to get some semantics out of the way first. Since you can remap buttons and different versions for different consoles have different ways of navigating the menus, (on top of completely unrelated button naming and layout). It makes trying to not press any specific button a very moot challenge. For the same reasons, menuing and skipping cutscenes are not even taken into consideration as they would be trivially worked around.
Instead, we'll look at the action labels the game shows in the controls remap menu. Here's what each button allows us to do:
- Look Buttons: turn camera left/right, snap camera, dodge (with sling or TNT), focus zoom
- Jump Button: jump, double jump, triple jump, smash strike, dive jump, stay afloat in mud, rising strike, swim, escape croc, mash for higher raft jumps get out of daze quicker, leap as Monkey Animal Spirit
- Strike Button: punch & kick, rising strike, spin-kick, smash strike, sweep kick, keep breakdancing, shield bash, attack as scorpion animal spirit, charge as penguin animal spirit,
- Run Button: dash, dive jump, start breakdance
- Crouch Button: crouch, start breakdance, sweep kick, roll, triple jumps, dive underwater
Concerning the Wii version when playing with a Wiimote specifically, a lot of actions like punching and swimming have been replaced by motion controls. I doubt I'll make a video about those, at best it will be mentioned in a footnote.
Note that if I ever reference a button by its label on the controller, I mean the default configuration for the GameCube layout, as this is the most popular and recognizable version.
With that all being said, I hope that you enjoy the challenges ahead!
Buttons Challenge spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l4fOUo3cOp9iWlTvQ7m5VLMaDLnphKYYY7S6dph-6bU
A/Jump Button Challenge: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF_BxR0u4TA7v0A67IOPUBFeNzF0eXPAe
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Inspired by:
- Banjo-Kazooie A Button Challenge - 100% TAS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAHVgFL6m5AyCAeG2cW8Q7I6pRo75xWCm
- DK64 A Button Challenge: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7NpaX5YZ5pyXiibLU2E7fQ
- The Complete History of the Super Mario 64 A Button Challenge: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL94lfiY18_CgWGQzweD_aVjsFXiRi6kn5
- pannenkoek2012: https://www.youtube.com/user/pannenkoek2012
- UncommentatedPannen: https://www.youtube.com/user/pannenkeok2012
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